Any experience of this serious error (ECU) message and any ideas on getting rid of it? Or have I got expensive trouble?
1200 8V (Griso)
I don’t need to go into details of the intermittent non-start issue as it’s been much reported: but could it have a connection to the serious error (ECU) warning appearing at bottom of dash display?
Having thwarted my holiday by killing the bike after going less than 100 miles on Friday, I eventually got the bike running again by starting it with a wire to give a direct feed from the battery to the solenoid, bypassing the wiring, fuses, relays – and I took the bike home without stopping it.
Though I have experienced this non-start issue since getting the bike 4 years ago, I have never had fuse or relay problems. This time the starter fuse blew and the spare blew when swapped in. Now, at home today, the dash is displaying the ‘! SERVICE’ warning, which means a serious fault and I think an ECU related problem. The diagnostics code shows an ECU 56 fault, which is a ‘Vehicle Speed Error’, whatever that means. The appearance of this error may be coincidental, or could it be related to the non-start and fuse problem? Any experience, ideas?
I have disconnected power to ECU, but the fault message keeps showing when powered up again. Apart from connecting to Axone or any other mythical diagnostic device, what can I do about this error? I have spent all day stripping, checking all sorts of things. Bike is now starting and not blowing fuse, but the serious error display persists.
Of course the non-start could happen ageing any time and perhaps the fuse blowing could happen again. It seems from others’ experience that once this starter fuse starts blowing, it keeps happening on a fairly regular basis. I will modify the wiring with a direct feed from battery to relay (yellow wire): but this new error message is worrying.
This info may or may not be relevant:–
The semi-working neutral light problem led to this latest incident. The neutral indicator only works half the time. It’s always been like this but dealers and Piaggio UK have always refused to fix it (warranty) or give advice. When I stopped at toll booth on motorway to Dublin, I tried to find neutral as I often have to – without the aid of a green indicator. Unfortunately it caught a gear, lurched and stalled. It was after this lurch/stall that the bike no longer started (and perhaps the fuse blew then, but I don’t know).
(I’ll ask about the neutral switch in a new thread.)
belfastguzzi2012-07-29 01:26:37